Tainted Love

A Ha... Take on Me.... discussion over.

Your Love--The Outfield

O.M.C. - How Bizarre

Night Ranger???......a one-hit wonder???

more 90s:
duncan sheik - Barely Breathing
savage garden - I want you
eagle eye cherry - save tonight
dogs eye view - everything falls apart
urge overkill - girl you'll be a woman soon
len - steal my sunshine
cumbawumba - tubthumping
stroke 9 - black backpack
stars - hum
eels - Novocaine
marcy playground - sex and candy
chris isaak - wicked game
divinyls - i touch myself
cardigans - lovefool
green jello - 3 little pigs
saigon kick - love is on the way
4 non blondes - what's up
proclaimers - 500 miles
tom cochrane - life is a highway
blind melon - no rain
crash test dummies - mmm mmm
edwyn collins - girl like you
white town - never be your woman
deep blue something - breakfast at tiffanis
folk implosion - natural one
joan osbourne - god was one of us
everything but the girl - missing
seven mary three - cumbersome
spacehog - in the meantime
jars - of clay flood
tracy bonham - mother mother
butthole surfers - pepper
primitive radio gods - standing outside phonebooth....
dishwalla - counting blue cars
prodigy - firestarter
luscious jackson - naked eye
verve pipe - freshman
verve - bittersweet symphony
meredith brooks - *****
shawn colvin - sunny came home
dee lite - groove is in the heart
sister hazel - all for you
sinead o connor - nothing compares to you
squirrel nut zippers - zoot suit riot
stereo mcs - connected
real big fish - sell out
stone roses - love spreads
sponge - plowed
omc - how bizarre
mighty bosstones - impression I get
fiona apple - criminal
mr big - to be with you
damn yankees - high enough
tonic - if you could only see
ben folds five - brick
semisonc - closing time
harvey danger - flagpole sitta
shawn mullins - lullaby
new radicals - get what you give
everlast - what it's like
fat boy slim - praise you
citizen kane - I've seen better days
concrete blonde - joey
faith no more - epic
coverdale page - pride and joy

then the hip hops: (just saying the title instantly brings the song into your head!)
baby got back
rumpshaker
jump around
good vibrations
I got a man
I'm too sexy
please don't go
cool like that
come on ride the train
sixpence kiss me
whoomp there it is
insane in the brain
what is love
slam duh duh duh
here come the hotstepper
informer
mambo #5 a little bit of
tootsee roll
return of the mack
rhythm is a dancer
I wish I was a little bit taller
I got 5 on it

damn maybe 90s does have 80s beat..

Orlando Ayala Cant Read said:

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LSCSN said:

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Gonna be hard to top Come On Eileen.

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This is basically known as THE quintessential one hit wonder by many people in their 30s 40s and 50s.

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"Take On Me" & " Come on Eileen " are the 2 songs that come to mind first.

62strat said:

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more 90s:
duncan sheik - Barely Breathing
savage garden - I want you
eagle eye cherry - save tonight
dogs eye view - everything falls apart
urge overkill - girl you'll be a woman soon
len - steal my sunshine
cumbawumba - tubthumping
stroke 9 - black backpack
stars - hum
eels - Novocaine
marcy playground - sex and candy
chris isaak - wicked game
divinyls - i touch myself
cardigans - lovefool
green jello - 3 little pigs
saigon kick - love is on the way
4 non blondes - what's up
proclaimers - 500 miles
tom cochrane - life is a highway
blind melon - no rain
crash test dummies - mmm mmm
edwyn collins - girl like you
white town - never be your woman
deep blue something - breakfast at tiffanis
folk implosion - natural one
joan osbourne - god was one of us
everything but the girl - missing
seven mary three - cumbersome
spacehog - in the meantime
jars - of clay flood
tracy bonham - mother mother
butthole surfers - pepper
primitive radio gods - standing outside phonebooth....
dishwalla - counting blue cars
prodigy - firestarter
luscious jackson - naked eye
verve pipe - freshman
verve - bittersweet symphony
meredith brooks - *****
shawn colvin - sunny came home
dee lite - groove is in the heart
sister hazel - all for you
sinead o connor - nothing compares to you
squirrel nut zippers - zoot suit riot
stereo mcs - connected
real big fish - sell out
stone roses - love spreads
sponge - plowed
omc - how bizarre
mighty bosstones - impression I get
fiona apple - criminal
mr big - to be with you
damn yankees - high enough
tonic - if you could only see
ben folds five - brick
semisonc - closing time
harvey danger - flagpole sitta
shawn mullins - lullaby
new radicals - get what you give
everlast - what it's like
fat boy slim - praise you
citizen kane - I've seen better days
concrete blonde - joey
faith no more - epic
coverdale page - pride and joy

then the hip hops: (just saying the title instantly brings the song into your head!)
baby got back
rumpshaker
jump around
good vibrations
I got a man
I'm too sexy
please don't go
cool like that
come on ride the train
sixpence kiss me
whoomp there it is
insane in the brain
what is love
slam duh duh duh
here come the hotstepper
informer
mambo #5 a little bit of
tootsee roll
return of the mack
rhythm is a dancer
I wish I was a little bit taller
I got 5 on it

damn maybe 90s does have 80s beat..




Tom cocrane was lead singer of Red Rider which was also a one hit wonder with Lunatic Fringe....which is a fine song.

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Tanya 93 said:

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Your Love--The Outfield

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How about making this old school with

Michael Praetorius' Terpsichore and one of the most covered one hit wonders of all time Johan Pachelbel's Canon

The Prodigy weren't one-hit wonders, and they weren't obscure.

I can't call Everlast a one-hit wonder either, due to his time with House of Pain (so basically a 2-hit wonder).

Sneakerpimps comes to mind for me.

ahh yes sneakerpimps 6 underground, also in that vain cowboy junkies cover sweet jane, also mazzy star fade into you. missed a couple of those chick ones.

everlast is def a one hit wonder.. house of pain is totally different band/group..

just like coverdale/page, or damn yankees, etc.

Open up your eyes was a minor hit for Tonic.

someone just called chris isaak a one hit wonder.

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If you have a greatest hits album, you aren't a one hit wonder.

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Martika respectfully disagrees with you:

aggiesq said:

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someone just called chris isaak a one hit wonder.

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Sounds like they maybe did a bad bad thing.

Professor Frick said:

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aggiesq said:

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someone just called chris isaak a one hit wonder.

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Sounds like they maybe did a bad bad thing.

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Somebody's crying.

aggiesq said:

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someone just called chris isaak a one hit wonder.

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according to chart performance, wicked game is by far his only hit, and it's not even #1.
'wont let her down' in 2009 was #5 on adult, I know we've all heard that one.

Hey I love the guy's voice and music, but he's a one hit wonder, thanks to his videographer.


Bruce, yeh I thought about leaving out tonic.. on mainstream rock tracks chart, open your eyes was #2, and you wanted more was #3, those combined with #1 if you could only see gives them pretty good rock radio presence.
But billboard top 100, only if you could only see was really made it high up the chart.


I honestly didn't check a lot of these to see if they charted high and on which chart.. but most of them only really had the one song, while some had other pretty minor hits.

jkag89 said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Your Love--The Outfield

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I posted it just for you my darling

Zoot Suit Riot was by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, bro.

Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are spinning in their graves.

Tanya 93 said:

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jkag89 said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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Your Love--The Outfield

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I posted it just for you my darling

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I know! And why I gave the response that was expected.

double aught said:

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PatAg said:

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Sex Panther said:

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The Wallflowers are in no remote way a one hit wonder

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I could not name one, and I went to youtube and didn't recognize any when listening. You might have liked them, but they are a one hit wonder. Google "the wallflowers a one hit wonder" and there are multiple pages with different articles and lists naming them that. Sorry about your bottom.

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They are without question not a one hit wonder. "Sixth Avenue Heartache" was their first single and was quite successful. They were well known before "One Headlight" was released. "One Headlight" has definitely stood the test of time better, but who knows if it would have even been a success were it not for their first hit.

Just because you only remember one of their songs, doesn't make them a one hit wonder.

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Annnnd just because you're the only one who knows any of their other songs, doesn't make them not a one hit wonder.

Personally, I don't call them a one hit wonder, b/c their "one hit" was a crappy song. If he wasn't Bob Dylan's kid, they would be unknown.

Nope, not a sock of PatAg. But, I stand corrected. Apparently they had 1 top 10, and 4 top 40 singles.

Dude just logged into his sock to defend his stupid statement

NoahAg said:

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double aught said:

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PatAg said:

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Sex Panther said:

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The Wallflowers are in no remote way a one hit wonder

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I could not name one, and I went to youtube and didn't recognize any when listening. You might have liked them, but they are a one hit wonder. Google "the wallflowers a one hit wonder" and there are multiple pages with different articles and lists naming them that. Sorry about your bottom.

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They are without question not a one hit wonder. "Sixth Avenue Heartache" was their first single and was quite successful. They were well known before "One Headlight" was released. "One Headlight" has definitely stood the test of time better, but who knows if it would have even been a success were it not for their first hit.

Just because you only remember one of their songs, doesn't make them a one hit wonder.

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Annnnd just because you're the only one who knows any of their other songs, doesn't make them not a one hit wonder.

Personally, I don't call them a one hit wonder, b/c their "one hit" was a crappy song. If he wasn't Bob Dylan's kid, they would be unknown.

Nope, not a sock of PatAg. But, I stand corrected. Apparently they had 1 top 10, and 4 top 40 singles.

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I hear "Three Marlenas" on the radio weekly here.

I thought it was well-settled law that it is a tie between:

Your Love by The Outfield; and
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield

This is a great thread that reminds me of a bunch of other good ones noted above.

Not yet mentioned was Zebra's 1983 hit Tell Me What You Want. Technically they might be a 2 hit wonder because of Who's Behind the Door. Anyway, my friends told me back then that these guys were going to be the next Led Zepplin. Did not happen.

The Verve are US one hit wonders but they are huge in England with multiple hits. I'm not sure why their music never carried over to this country. They are a great band.

Lucky Man is in my rotation

Bruce Almighty said:

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The Verve are US one hit wonders but they are huge in England with multiple hits. I'm not sure why their music never carried over to this country. They are a great band.

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Technically I guess you'd have to call them a one hit wonder in the U.S. but they are such an amazing band. Urban Hymns is one of the best albums of all time... But yeah, big following in the UK.

BWnDallas said:

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I thought it was well-settled law that it is a tie between:

Your Love by The Outfield; and
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield

This is a great thread that reminds me of a bunch of other good ones noted above.

Not yet mentioned was Zebra's 1983 hit Tell Me What You Want. Technically they might be a 2 hit wonder because of Who's Behind the Door. Anyway, my friends told me back then that these guys were going to be the next Led Zepplin. Did not happen.

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Pretty sure you are thinking of the Spice Girls.

Aggie Infantry said:

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i think you're looking for the "worst music video" thread thats also on this board

No, No. I followed Infantry's link and noticed the outfield had 51million views and Rick Springfield had only 17 million views. Stacy's mom had like 53 million. While I was you tubing, I also watch the Zebra videos.

I never even heard of the spice girls.

BWnDallas said:

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No, No. I followed Infantry's link and noticed the outfield had 51million views and Rick Springfield had only 17 million views. Stacy's mom had like 53 million. While I was you tubing, I also watch the Zebra videos.

I never even heard of the spice girls.

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Missing out bud.

And I was joking. They were not a one hit wonder by any means, but for educational purposes: